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Page Two J^aroon antJ d5olD Published Weekly l)y the Students of Elon College Member of the North Carolina CoUe- giate Press Association "Entered at the Post-Office at Elou Col lege, N. C., as second-class matter. Two PoUars Per CoUege Year Sion M. Lynam ; ■ • W. B. Terrell Managing Editor W C Elder Business Manager W. J.'Apple Ass’t Business Mgr^ J. N. Denton .... Advertising Manager J. O. Atkinson Jr. . . Ass’t Adv. Mgr. J. H. Dollar Circulation Manager e'. E. Snotherly. .Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Kate Strader .. Asa’t Circulation Mgr. Sallie Mae Oliver Ass’t Cir. Mgr. F. A. Eawles Publicity Editor C. W. Hook Editor for the Alumni Advertising Bates Upon Bectuest land in Paradise. W e suppose that all of them have learned by this time that they didn’t. Men and. women aren’t perfect, and every student here is subject to his own petty idiosyncrasies, and some of them are awfully uncom fortable for the neighbors. We believe that we give as much trou ble as we get, so if we lay ofif trouble dispensing for a while wa may not be able to collect so much of it. JAKE BLAKE SAYS: I isn’t no expert on spellin’, hut I b’lieves de pep dese Elon feUers has got ort ter he spelled wid a “i.” We wonder who won the Lynchburg game—Tiny Richard son and the rest of the gridiron squad, or a bevy of girls back home. A sheet of paper and a few drops of ink have upset great er projects than the Lynchburg victory. It makes us feel like we are somebody when a man like Erwin L. Shaver says that we are the onlv college in the world to have a correlated religious program. We hope that a certain organiza tion will not keep trying to set us back a decade or two. There are some fine things in the paragraphics which Jack Rab bit is giving us in his “Lotta Tunk” column. .Some of them need to be read a dozen times and pondered for a month. Find them. P. J. Carlton and Col. J. E. West are rooting hard for a beau tified campus. Let’s help them root. Elon is the best place in the world, and it can be made the prettiest. Let’s do it. DEAN HOOK TALKS Basing his remarks on the old proverb that our opinion of things gives us more trouble than the things themselves, Dean Hook said some fine things in the chapel service one day last week. It was a cold day, and they didn’t have the heat on Alamance Hall at the time, so only a few students heard him. We are of the opinion that the Dean ought to repeat those re marks when all the students can be present to hear them. There was much truth in what he had to say. Everybody who has given the matter careful con sideration knows that it isn’t the troubles that spoil tomorrow, but the worry takes the joy of today. The great trouble is that we have n’t given the matter careful con sideration, and consequently we go on crossing bridges before we get to them. We feel sure that if students would really wait for things to happen before they raise a kick there would be as great a lack ot kicking here at Elon as there is a lack of enthusiasm. Half the troubles of a student body are purely imaginary. They worry about things that never have hap pened and never will happen. We are not trying to deny that there are troubles, but what we are try ing to do is to echo the Dean’s speech, and to impress the fact on our readers that it is our opinions of things which give us more trou ble than the things themselves. In our first editorial chat with the new students we remarked that we hoped no student had come to this College expecting to MISSING ENTHUSIASM Enthusiasm is so woefully lack ing on this College campus that everybody is beginning to notice it. We heard a professor com plaining that he had never seen a student body so utterly devoid of it, and it is having its effect on the spirits of the football teatn. We need to put some life into the things we are doing, and to back the teams that represent us with something at least akin to “pep.” The literary societies, so cial activities, and the religious interests of the College are suf- ferng from the missing enthusi asm. Enthusiasm is the salt that saves a student body from decay. We don’t want mortification to set in while we still profess to live. It is the opinion of Maroon and Gold that we need something to arouse an enthusiasm here. We aren't sure that “pep” meetings would do it, but v’e would like to see it tried out. We are getting sort of lonesome for a few lusty yells that mean real suport. There is a sort of Rip Van Winkle at mosphere about the place. There doesn’t seem to be energy enough to complain. We are of the opinion that we have rarely had a better college spirit so far as smooth agreement between faculty and students' is concerned, in a long time. It has n’t been so good since we have been a student here, but we are wondering now whether it is a healthy sign or not. We would n’t like to start a row, but we would like to find that missing enthusiasm. DR. HAilPEIt DESCRIBES TRIP TO GOLDEN WEST Tells of Gift to Elon by M. Orban, Jr.; Writes of Christian Education Building for College. Thanks to the insistence of (’ol. T. 10. West. -\[rs. Ilai’iier and I set out on a ten tbousand four hundred mile trans continental trij) and with many grateful experiences accomplished it. AA’e started before day on August 2 and reached home on the return journey on August 2i. In between these days we were in every state west of the Mississippi ex cept Nebraska and South Dakota and for lack of them traversed Tennessee. Kentucky, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia. with Canada thrown in for good measure. We saw enough corn in KcHisas to feed the nation, enough oil in California to run its motors, enough wheat and live stock in North Dakota. Iowa. Min nesota and Wisconsin, to satisfy the world, it seemed to us. We saw the American Desert, the Shasta Valley, the Grand ('anyon, the Yellowstone Park. Puget Sound, and English life on Ameri can soil in Victoria and Vancou\er. ^^’e saw Indians. Mexicans, Hindus, adobe houses, wigwams, and pueblos, ^^’e saw mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, seas, and the I’acific Ocean. We saw fish and animals impossible to describe. We saw Long F>each. and Seal P>each. and many other b(^aches. We saw Hollywood and Hurkbnnk and I’asadena and San Gabriel Mission, the oldest Christian institution in the great West, planted there before our nation was born. AVe saw the Golden Gate Park and the Ostrich Farm and the miles on miles of orchards. We saw the land where geraniums are as i)lenti- fnl as Queen Anne's lace in a Southern Held. We saw St. I-jouis and Kansas City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago. We saw Pacific Garden Mission and our own servants of the Publishing House at Dayton. On Tuesday afternoon at 2:15. on August 7. I grasped the hand of Mr. M. Orban. Jr. Then in quick succession we were presented to his wife and daughter, Miss Corine. The home of Brother Oi- ban was formerly in Kansas, but he lias lived for several years now in AVhittiei, California. This first meeting of ours was at the Santa Fe Station in Los Angeles. After an entrancing drive through the beautiful residential and business sec tions of Los Angeles, we drove a dozen or so miles to the home of our friends in Whittier. Here we met Mr. JI. Or ban, Sr.. a grand old gentleman, almost deaf. He is proud of his son and his family and they are de\oted to him. For four days this family abandoned themselves to us. Our happiness was all they could think of. Immediately after breakfast, we were in the car with Miss Corine at the wheel. We literally travelled all day, stopping only for lunch, and returning to find an appetiz ing dinner spread for us. Our evenings Avere spent except the first one on which we visited the oil fields of Santa Fe and Signal Hill, in tlie quiet of the Orban home. One even ing Mrs. Lamont, the married daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orban living in Los Angeles w’ith her husband and little daughter, dined with us. Mr. Orban began life as clerk in a country store. He married the youngest daughter of Kev. Isaac Mooney, the pioneer minister of the Christian Church in Kansas. Although his family was Presbyterian, he became a member of the Christian Church. I went to tell Brother Orban and his wife about the needs of Klon. When disiister overtook us on .January 18, they voluntarily sent us a check for five thou sand dollars. 1felt sure these people would want to help us- complete our building progrmjB^ by gi^’ing us The Christian Education Building, the first of its kind on any college campus in the world, accordiijg to Prof. Walter S. Athearn. This biiilding is to house the religious and social life of the students, is to pi-ovide laboratory facilities for classes in religious education, is to con tain class rooms for the professors of Bible and of Religious Education, and is to have a chapel for the regular chapel exercises and the ^oluntai’y student group meetings of the college. The late Henry F. Cope gave his unqualified endorsement to the idea, as also to the building plan. So did the Keligious Education Associa tion in session in Cleveland last April, when the idea was advanced without citing the college for which the building was being projected. 1 had not misjudged Brother (,)rban nor his wife. They decided to give us this building and to equip it. Then they commissioned me to inform President Coffin that they would also give Palmer College fifty thousand dollars in addition to obligations already assumed. And they handed me a check for one thou sand dollars for our infant college, Beth lehem. of W’adley, Ala. This gift of at least -flOl.iMK) sur passes anything in the history of the Christian Church. We left our fi-iends at the Southern Pacific station in Los Angeles on Friday night. August 10. to begin the long swing homewards through San Francisco. Can ada. and the Yellowstone Park. The train we boarded is called The Lark, 'rhe song of the lark was in our hearts and will abide there. Finally, the Christian Education Build ing at Elon College is not to be the Orban Building. With characteristic modesty it is to perpetuate the life and usefulness of Uev. Isaac Mooney, the pioneer minister of our Church in Kansas, and is to be known as The Mooney ('hristian Education Building. ooooooooooooo O LOTTA JUNK ° O By “JACK KABBIT" O ®oooooooooooo« The “Figliting Christians” met a Tartar Saturday in the game at Lynch burg. After a real hard fought game our boys emerged from the battle as victors. Both teams fought like tigers, and, due to the able coaching of Elou, the Maroon and Gold eleven “brought home the bacon. ’ ’ *.* •*« •• Girls, remember when you go to Bur lington always take your “copex” with you. Ask Madge Woods. She can tell you that a powder box won’t do in ease of an emergency. J'J ♦** It was “Tiny” Richardson’s toe that booted the oval over the cross bars at Lynchburg and spelled victory for Elon. We are proud of him. He showed that when under fire he can deliver the goods* But don’t forget that there were ten other boys in the game who made it possible for him to kick that goal. ».• «.'♦ A few weeks ago an item appeared in tliis column about the school spirit of Elon. Some people misunderstood the meaning of it. We all love tliis old school. Each and every student here would gladly sacrifice his or her life for it. It is the finest school in th.‘ world, but the “pep” in athletics is not wliat it has been. Let’s get to gether, elect a cheer leader and store up loads of “pep” to open up when Hampden-Sydney opens our home sche dule. ‘ ‘ Let's go! ” *.* *.* ♦V *♦ Jack Underwood has succeeded Enier son Sides as field general of the Bear Cats. Jack took his team to Oak Ridge and received a neat lacing at the hands of the prep school boys. Jack says he wouldn’t object to being defeated if he could use the Varsity scrubs, but tl'.ose third string men don’t know their stuff. Stick in there, Jack; things have been sadder. »*• •*« «’« Now for King College. That’s the game we are looking forw’ard to. King has been running wild over all oppo sition lately, so it remains for Elon to put a crimp in their winning streak. Maroon and Gold may not be returned victors, but it is a safe bet that King will know they have been in a game. • « •« «« Jimmie Simpson has lost his sw^eot tooth. Jimmie seldom eats his des sert. Every time w'e have pie for lunch, he sends his piece over to Mar garet Terry. The question is twofold: Has he lost his appetite for pie, or Is he falling in lo-- with Margaret? *.* •.« *.* V# ♦♦ “Chick” Witt, the flashy halfback of the Lynchburg Hornets, is a real football player. He is one of the best players in the South today. Our hats off to you, “Chick,” you sure are the j stuff. October lo, Psiphelians Meet Hear Two Program^ SIX GIRLS RECEIVE MENTloj ' Wide Range of Subjects Covered Double Program of Girls—Much Interest Manifested. The Psiphelian society met in reg, lar session Monday night in the recff, tion room of West Dormitory, 'pwoi the most interesting programs of year were given. Miss Dall-J, C.'tten, “My Trip to Vi,.I g'h;ia.” M-sj- Cotton told of her tripii^ such an interesting way that the eoei ety felt as if it had been with her. The Current Events given by Mi* Clara Tuck covered a wide raage" activity. These events were veryint?, esting and helpful. A short story was read by Miss Fat nie Glenn Elder, the title of the being “Brown of the North.” 1^,1 story proevd to be very interesting, aji Miss Elder held the attention of audience. Miss Bessie Martin read* very interesting and educational esBat, “The United States During the lutionary Period.” Humor was furnished by Miss Dor> thy Lowe. Miss Lowe’s jokes wereei ceptionally interesting, and the lofi touch added much to their interest. Miss Victoria Adams told of howsV spent her vacaiton. She told of If trip home and her stay at the m\ This was a very interesting number, Miss Essie Cotten read a short gtory “The Lady or the Tiger,” by Stocl ton. The story was given in the pleaj ing style of Miss Cotten. A dialogut “Test for GcTieral Knowledge,” b M'isses Kate Strader and Mary Ha' ' Stryker w’as educational interestiit and humorous. Current Events by Miss Nannie AH ridge were very educational and infc esting. Miss Nettie Harris gave m very helpful and useful points on et quette. Miss Eunice Morrow then entertaiof, the society with some very good huM Those receiving spccial mention wer Misses Lowe, Elder, Martin, Harni Morrow and Cotten. The College Store has a finedis' play of College Sweaters. o o I I I DONOR OF BUILDING VISITS THE CAMPUS (Continued from Page One) S. M. Lynam is spending today ir Chapel Hill on business. Mr. Carlton insisted that the new j Li))rary should be equipi)ed \\hen finish ed with the very latest and most up-to- date library furniture obtainable, in- cludin.i;' steel stacks. He was also thor oughly of the opinion that the campus should be Inid out and fenced, grassed, and suitable walks provided. Another item of interest on the campus wns the visit to the hill on Friday af ternoon of Dr. W. S. Long and Colonel •Tunius IT. Harden. Pictures were made of Dr. Long. (Lionel Harden. Dr. ^yat- son. Dr. Barrett, and “Uncle” Wellons. five men who were present when the location committee decided to ])Iace the college here in 1.*^). The picture was taken under the same gum tree under which these men stood some thirty-fivp years ago and made their decision to build a college on this spot. Most convenient of all—Pal and Superite Pencils. Get them at the College Store. ALL I NEED IS A NEW HAT You should have a Memory Book. Get one at the College Store today. If he were not such A BLOCK HEAD he would take in his sign an bring his wants to Coleman-HcritageCo. Burlington, N. C.
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